UChicago/Hyde Park = Dangerous?

TabascoFlow
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:42:48 +0000

aha wow, reading those police reports puts everything into perspective for me.

My dad and I had flown over to Chicago for a one-day trip from New York; to visit a few colleges, primarily UChic and Northwestern.
Both were beautiful, we loved the city. I absolutely fell in love with everything UChicago had to offer; a bastion of intellectual though situated just 10 minutes from a beautiful downtown. Didn’t recieve that same vibe from other urban universities such as NYU, BC,etc.

Anyways, because UChicago was our last stop before going back to Midway to catch our flight, we decided to test out the public transport and take a bus directly from Hyde Park to Midway.
The route went through the far Southside Chicago…and let me tell you, growing up in NY, I’ve been to the “rough neighborhoods” of the Bronx, Jamaica Queens past midnight,etc…but this was really something lol. Not exactly the most pleasant neighborhood.
As far as surrounding neighborhood goes; I do agree with an above poster that a school like Columbia is way ahead of UChicago, and UPenn as well.